Ah, Footbah

It was 56 degrees this morning when I pulled the blinds a bit before 6 this morning. It'll be in the 80s when a lot of these high-school-football games kickoff tonight and tomorrow, but I'll bet the that morning cool will prompt the first sweater appearances at a few of the stadia.

Here are some of the Week 2 games that I'm interested in:

-- Nashville's Christ Presbyterian Academy at Lexington Christian, whom www.MaxPreps.com has as Kentucky's top Class A team. CPA is the team that ended 2A Fort Campbell's 20-game win streak last Friday.

-- Monroe County (the web site's tops in 2A) vs. Edmonson County. In a 35-7 win over Wayne County last Friday, Monroe scored touchdowns on a 97-yard punt return and 95-yard pass.

-- Southwestern at Somerset (No. 1 in 3A) and then Harlan County vs. Pulaski County in the Ray Correll Bowl. This game previously pitted Somerset against Pulaski County (which is also in Somerset), but there's some bad blood between those two schools.

-- 4A No. 1 Boyle County vs. Franklin County (on Saturday) in the Bob Allen Pigskin Classic. Franklin County was 1-9 last season and scored more than 14 points only one time, but the Flyers but beat Louisville Atherton, 75-7, last Friday in the head-coaching debut of alum Chris Tracy.

-- 5A No. 1 Fort Thomas Highlands vs. Ryle. This game, to be broadcast live at www.USAToday.com, is the first of a home-and-home series between these two teams this season. Joseph Williams blogs that Highlands is 8-1 all-time against the 6A opponent.

-- Louisville Saint Xavier (No. 1 in 6A) vs. Ballard. Most of the state's big 6A teams open their seasons this weekend, including St. X.

-- Calloway County vs. Murray. Fourteen wins apiece in the all-time series, writes Tommy Dillard in today's Murray Ledger & Times.

-- Caverna at Adair County. Bobby Brockman writes in the Central Kentucky News-Journal that Adair County coach Eric Graves carries a monogrammed handkerchief from the widow of his mentor, the late Campbellsville University coach Ron Finley. I love that kind of stuff.

-- Harlan at Corbin.

-- Kenwood (Tenn.) at Fort Campbell. This will be the second game against a Tennessee opponent for the 0-1 Falcons, who have won three straight Class 2A championships.

-- Louisville Trinity at Lawrence North of Indiana. Trinity is second in Class 6A, says www.MaxPreps.com.

-- Reidland at Lone Oak. A key tilt in one of the last McCracken County-championship races!

-- Webster County at Madisonville-North Hopkins. Webster, winless in 2009, is the team that beat Heath last week. (Heath, by the way, is idle this weekend.) The Maroons are looking for their first victory of the season.

-- Crittenden County at Massac County (Ill.) Mostly, I'm interested in how the Tigers will get across the Ohio River. Personally, I hope they head up Ky. 91 from Marion and cross at the Cave-in-Rock Ferry.

-- Anderson County at Meade County. Apparently, Brandenburg is one of Kentucky's high-school-football hotbeds, which I didn't realize, though I work at the college paper with a guy who had played for them.

-- Gateway of Missouri at Paducah Tilghman.

-- Warren Central at Franklin-Simpson Saturday in the Pigskin Bowl. This is another great regional rivalry down around Bowling Green.

-- Hopkins County Central at Herrin (Ill.) on Saturday.

-- Trigg County at Mayfield on Saturday.

-- Hopkinsville vs. Franklin (Tenn.) Saturday at Stadium of Champions in Tie-Breaker Park. This game pairs the Tigers, who shocked Tilghman last week, against their former coach, Craig Clayton, who now is at Franklin.